Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Transport and Communications
Issue 1 - First Report of the Committee
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications has the honour to table its
FIRST REPORT
Your committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of such legislation and other matters as were referred to it, reports, pursuant to rule 104(2), that the expenses incurred by the committee during the Second Session of the Fortieth Parliament are as follows:
1. With respect to its consideration of estimates and legislation:
Professional and Other Services $ 319 Transportation and Communications — All Other Expenditures — Witness Expenses 567 Total $ 886
2. With respect to its study on emerging issues related to its communications mandate and to report on the wireless sector, including issues such as access to high-speed Internet, the supply of bandwidth, the nation-building role of wireless, the pace of the adoption of innovations, the financial aspects associated with possible changes to the sector, and Canada's development of the sector in comparison to the performance in other countries:
Professional and Other Services $ 8,807 Transportation and Communications 156,071 All Other Expenditures 141 Witness Expenses 1,401 Total $ 166,420
In addition to the expenses for the examination of legislation and for its special study as set out above, the committee also incurred general postal charges in the amount of $91.
During this session, your committee received 7 orders of reference, held 26 meetings, heard more than 33 hours of testimony from 68 witnesses and submitted 6 reports in relation to its work.
In addition to hearing witnesses in Ottawa, members of the committee conducted fact-finding visits to Paris, London, Tallinn and Brussels.
Your committee also dealt with five Bills: Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992 (reported with amendment on May 7, 2009); Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act (reported without amendment on May 28, 2009); Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Marine Liability Act and the Federal Courts Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (reported without amendment on June 18, 2009); Bill S-220, An Act respecting commercial electronic messages (did not report before the end of the session); and Bill C-27, An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio- television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act (did not report before the end of the session).
Respectfully submitted,
DENNIS DAWSON
Chair